meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Micah Hanks Program

UAP and Myths of the Space Age | MHP 09.08.25.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On an unassuming evening in March 1997, thousands of witnesses in Arizona and surrounding states observed strange lights in the sky. The famous incident, known today as "The Phoenix Lights," remains a staple of modern UFO studies... but is there a deeper story behind this classic "best evidence" encounter?

This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we take a careful look at the Phoenix Lights mystery, as well as recent sightings of "mystery drones," and how biased viewpoints that treat the subject either skeptically or entirely credulously often lead to the creation of "myths of the space age," where no real resolution results. Can such analysis be applied to UAP research in the future in ways that promote better research and more case resolutions?

Have you had a UFO/UAP sighting? Please consider reporting your sighting to the UAP Sightings Reporting System, a public resource for information about sightings of aerial phenomena.

The story doesn't end here... become an X Subscriber and get access to even more weekly content and monthly specials.

Want to advertise/sponsor The Micah Hanks Program?

We have partnered with the AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. If you would like to advertise with The Micah Hanks Program, all you have to do is click the link below to get started:

AdvertiseCast: Advertise with The Micah Hanks Program

Show Notes

Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:

BECOME AN X SUBSCRIBER AND GET EVEN MORE GREAT PODCASTS AND MONTHLY SPECIALS FROM MICAH HANKS.

Sign up today and get access to the entire back catalog of The Micah Hanks Program, as well as "classic" episodes, weekly "additional editions" of the subscriber-only X Podcast, the monthly Enigmas specials, and much more.

Like us on Facebook

Follow @MicahHanks on X.

Keep up with Micah and his work at micahhanks.com.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

reports of unidentified flying objects unidentified aerial phenomena are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments

0:13.4

the american people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the UFO stories

0:19.4

so why do you suppose that all of this has been kept from the world?

0:22.6

Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe.

0:27.6

Where do they come from?

0:28.6

Why can't you explain it?

0:29.6

Everybody in Uthology is screaming for disclosure.

0:32.6

The future is now.

0:34.6

This is Micah Hanks.

0:36.6

From the high mountains of Appalachra in a bunker below ground. Welcome, One at All. It is the

0:41.4

Micahanks program. Glad as always to be going in pursuit of the anomalous in our existence,

0:46.8

like we do every week. Listen on demand via podcasting apps everywhere, and of course,

0:52.7

courtesy of the fine folks there at the UnX Radio Network.

0:56.8

Welcome, one and all. Hope you're all doing wonderful. And of course, amid all of my crazy travel

1:01.8

that starts happening this time of year, I was thinking about this earlier today.

1:05.8

There are several things that always start happening around the same time, and for me,

1:09.7

every year travel tends to be one of them.

1:13.0

As we emerge from the dreaded summer slump, we also start to see some news.

1:18.4

In fact, one thing that we have been tracking there at the debrief this week is the announcement

1:23.7

that there's going to be another UAP hearing.

1:26.5

Now, we've been actually hearing about this forthcoming hearing for some time now,

1:31.2

but it was officially announced on September 3rd that Representative Anna Paulina Luna

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Micah Hanks, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Micah Hanks and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.